The tiny community of Deeper Harbour is in trouble-and so is young Roland MacTavish. Roland's mom wants to move with him to Ottawa, away from his father, his weird friend Dulsie, and his even weirder grandfather. So Roland does what any...
Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic
The Nova Scotia government, in partnership with members of the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, contributes titles in accessible formats to the NNELS repository, highlighting Atlantic Canadian authored and published books. The Atlantic Canadian collection includes a range of fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, including adventure stories, mysteries, classics, ghost stories, general histories, tales of pirates, ghosts and rogues, and much more.
Check out the Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic 2021 Collection
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Auteur:Vernon, SteveSommaire: - Auteur:Bennet, JimSommaire:
In this memoir Jim Bennet portrays the Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs of young boys, freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader "down the bank" with him to adventures all over the city's...
- Auteur:Creelman, ElizabethSommaire:
In the mid-1970s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. But sixteen-year-old identical twin sisters April and Pilgrim live happily on their parents' farm. Their father recruits a young Bahamian...
- Auteur:Rhindress, CharlieSommaire:
Stompin' Tom Connors is a legend. There are very few Canadians who don?t know the foot-stompin' patriot in the cowboy hat who sang almost exclusively of the country he loved and called home. But there is much more to Tom Connors than '...
- Auteur:Fitch, ShereeSommaire:
Hello toes, our tootsie friends. Hello, summer feet again! Canada's Dr. Seuss, Sheree Fitch, is back with a brand-new tongue-twisting picture book that celebrates all things summer. From those first barefoot days, wobble-dy walking...
- Auteur:Poliquin, DanielSommaire:
Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last. Mute in...
- Auteur:Thompson, Reginald 'Dutch'Sommaire:
Reginald-better known as 'Dutch'-Thompson is a multi-faceted storyteller with unforgettable voices-those of Roy from Murray Harbour North, Adelaide from Bunbury, Gus from Chepstow, and countless others-to tell the stories of the Bygone...
- Auteur:Anderson, AntonySommaire:
Saturday, November 3, 1956. The United Nations about 10 p.m. Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about read a proposal composed of seventy-eight...
- Auteur:Avery, JudeSommaire:
This manuscript is a culmination of years of effort to reveal a "lost chapter" in Canadian and Maritime history, a story that began with a Mi'kmaq and Basque seasonal presence on the NS Eastern Shore as early as the...
- Auteur:Pauwels, Jacques R.Sommaire:
Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and...
- Auteur:Canning, BridgetSommaire:
Wanda Jaynes is about to lose her job amidst a mountain of bills, and she suspects her musician boyfriend might be romantically interested in her friend, Trish. But Wanda’s life changes radically on a routine trip to the grocery store...
- Auteur:Holdstock, PaulineSommaire:
A feral girl roams the dense forests of nineteenth-century France. In the village of Freyzus, she is chased by suspicious townspeople to the edge of a gorge, where she jumps and disappears, vanishing into village legend. On the other...
- Auteur:Collins, GerardSommaire:
Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John's. With both parents now dead, the siblings must decide what to do with the old house they've...
- Auteur:Trethewey, LauraSommaire:
An exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe...
- Auteur:Bartley, AllanSommaire:
The Klu Klux Klan's dominant force of hate in America slowly found it's way north of the border, upending Canada's somewhat peaceful existence.
- Auteur:Glover, DouglasSommaire:
Douglas Glover’s acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart, the novel was acclaimed by the most respected critics in Canada and the US,...
- Auteur:Coady, Lawrence W.Sommaire:
A contemporary account of tracking a historical explorer across Labrador. In the mode of Leonidas Hubbard and William Cabot, Hesketh Prichard set out with a group of adventurers in the early 1900s, determined to cross Labrador....
- Auteur:Coady, L. W.Sommaire:
Hesketh Prichard set out with a group of adventurers in the early 1900s, determined to cross Labrador. Disregarding advice, his expedition headed up a canyon and massive cliffs all with a canoe in tow. The canoe was later abandoned. The...
- Auteur:Gunraj, AndreaSommaire:
Partially inspired by the real-life experiences of a former resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores the topics of child abuse, neglect, and abduction against a complex interplay of gender...
- Auteur:Guitard, NicholasSommaire:
For more than 50 years, William Francis Ganong explored the wilderness of New Brunswick to document its natural history. The importance of his work is well understood by academics studying natural history or cartography, but for the...
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